poster movie

The Challenge

7.4 average rating
★★★★★
7.4
Japanese / 89 MIN. / 1962

The Genres

The Synopsis

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.

The Cast

Koji TsurutaTatsuo UmemiyaMayumi OzoraHitomi NakaharaTetsuro TambaEitarō OzawaYūko KusunokiKappei MatsumotoShunji KasugaTakashi KandaKen SudoIsamu YamaguchiRinichi YamamotoMitsuo AndōTadashi SuganumaEiran YoshikawaNobuo YanaSanae MitsuokaAkikane SawaChico LourantCliff Harrington

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